She met with San Isidro collective
campesinos. They were occupying land they're entitled to. They have
legal title to prove it. "(T)he patina of legitimacy (has) often
been wrested (from them) through fraud and coercion," she said.

Their "legal title emanated
from a rare victory meted out by the notoriously ineffective judicial
system that typically favors the agro-oligarchs engaging in brutal land
grabs in the region."

"….Trejo's untimely
death eliminates the one lawyer who had achieved any relief for the
beleaguered campesinos of the Lower Aguan. Each murder statistic rattled
off is a real person with a real family that will be forever anguished
by the loss of their loved ones," said Caraski.

According to Caraski, they
"voiced their concerns about US support for Honduras' police and
military while (they) continue to kill, kidnap, torture and commit other
heinous crimes with impunity."

In March 2012, 94 congressional
members addressed the State Department. They wrote then Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton. In part, they
said:

"We are concerned with
the grave human rights situation in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras
and ask the State Department to take effective steps to address it."

"The abuses taking place
in this area of the country reflect a larger pattern of human rights
violations in which human rights defenders, journalists, community leaders
and opposition activists are the subject of death threats, attacks and
extrajudicial executions."

"We urge you to continue
to pressure the Honduran government to protect the fundamental human
rights of its citizens, and to investigate and prosecute abuses."

In January 2013, 58 congressional
members voiced
concerns about Honduras' Afro-indiginous
Garifuna community repression.

They addressed Secretary of
State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder. They called for an
"investigation of alleged abuses by Honduran security forces and
the possible role DEA agents played in a shooting incident that led
to the tragic death of four indigenous villagers on the Patuca River
in northeastern Honduras."

"The State Department
and the DEA have acknowledged involvement in the May 11, 2012, incident.
A pregnant woman and a 14-year-old boy were among the four villagers
killed. Several other innocent bystanders were injured."

They also addressed "the
worsening human rights situation of Afro-indigenous communities since
the June 2009 military coup in Honduras. These communities have been
hit particularly hard by drug-related violence from both drug-traffickers
and US-backed drug war in Honduras."

Carasik called the State Department's
response "tepid at best." State Department spokespersons speak
about human rights. In Honduras or elsewhere, they do nothing to protect
them.

In 2012, Congress invoked
the Leahy Law. It part of the 2001 Foreign Operations Appropriations
Act (Sec. 8092 of PL 106-259). It states:

"None of the funds made
available by this Act may be used to support any training program involving
a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary
of Defense has received credible information from the Department of
State that a member of such unit has committed a gross violation of
human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken."

The law prohibits funding
foreign security forces that commit gross human rights violations unless
its government "is taking effective measures to bring the responsible
members of the security forces unit to justice."

Earlier he was tried and acquitted.
At the time, police internal affairs head, Maria Luisa Borjas, said
she was threatened. High-level security officials obstructed investigations.
Other murder charges against Bonilla haven't been investigated.

Funding Honduras' police continues.
State Department officials claim they're for specially "vetted"
units. US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs William Brownfield plans millions
more dollars in additional security funding.

He said so during a St. Patrick's
Day Honduran visit. At the same time, AP headlined "Honduras Police Accused of Death Squad
Killings," saying:

"Police have long been
accused of operating more like assassins than law enforcement officers
in Honduras, but few cases ever have been investigated."

"Despite millions of
dollars in U.S. aid to Honduras aimed at professionalizing the country's
police, accusations persist."

"In the last three years,
the AP has learned, Honduran prosecutors have received as many as 150
formal complaints about death squad-style killings in the capital of
Tegucigalpa, and at least 50 more in the economic hub of San Pedro Sula."

"Even the country's top
police chief" was charged. Bonilla's linked to numerous deaths.
He "was chosen to lead the national police force despite unanswered
questions about his past."

Death squad killings don't
vary much. "(M)asked men in bulletproof vests, traveling in large
vehicles with tinted windows and no plates, roam the city in groups
of 10."